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PA Bill Number: HB2235

Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...

Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...

Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024

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Washington, DC -(Ammoland.com)- Barack Obama thought he could get a cheap “bipartisan” victory over the “gun lobby.”

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The last line of a story on so-called “gun violence research” appearing Wednesday afternoon on the Seattle Times website may explain why the continued push to restore federal funding for such research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is such a sticking point with Second Amendment advocates.

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Supreme Court Justice Scalia dead at 79 :: 02/13/2016

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the judicial standard-bearer of the conservative movement and the court's most provocative member, died Saturday. He was 79.

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Germany: German Applications for "Small Arms Licenses" Soar. Only One Problem . . . :: 02/12/2016

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The "deafening silence" from the White House over a rash of police deaths :: 02/12/2016

When convenience store robber Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer, the President quickly offered an official statement. He did the same for Trayvon Martin. And again for Laquan McDonald and pretty much every other time a black suspect has wound up on the wrong end of a lethal force situation on the part of the cops.

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Cosmopolitan Magazine to Partner with Bloomberg Group to Promote Gun Control :: 02/11/2016

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Despite Policy Banning All Guns, Shooting at Panera Bread Leaves Two Police Officers Dead :: 02/11/2016

On February 10th, two Harford County sheriff’s deputies were killed in a shootout with 67-year-old David Brian Evans at a Panera Bread location in Abingdon, Maryland.

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A bipartisan bill in the U.S. House that would remove firearm suppressors from National Firearms Act regulation after 82 years has picked up a number of new supporters.

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An analysis of mass shootings in the United States since the year 2002 shows that gun-wielding mass killers are more likely to strike where the Second Amendment right to bear arms has been supplanted by “gun-free zone” ordinances, be they federal, local, or specified by the owner of the property.

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